Symptoms of Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease

Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity share some of the same symptoms. Although the actual damage occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, specifically in the small intestine, the symptoms manifest in many different ways and often show up throughout your entire body.

Gluten sensitivity and celiac disease have hundreds of symptoms; the following lists don’t contain them all, but are a good sampling:

Gastrointestinal symptoms: These are some of the classic — although not the most common — symptoms of celiac disease:

Abdominal pain and distension

Acid reflux

Bloating

Constipation

Diarrhea

Gas and flatulence

Greasy, foul-smelling, floating stools

Nausea

Vomiting

Weight loss or weight gain

Nongastrointestinal symptoms: Interestingly, although gluten sensitivity and celiac disease affect the gut, most people’s symptoms are not gastrointestinal in nature. This partial list includes just some of the more than 250 symptoms not centered in the digestive tract.